Posts by Psychokitty

I'm fixing up an old Inspiron 9200 for a friend He's going to be on the road quite a bit, so I bought a "new" battery for it off ehole. The battery is clearly a refurb. I believe refurbished batteries are just fine, so long as...

Hiya. -Just havin' a bit of fun with new "faces". Actually came looking for 320GB HD choice advice. Seems they haven't quite worked the bugs out of the 500GBers yet. Neweggs most popular one is the WD Scorpio black (7200...

*sigh* ...It's too easy.

Hi from Sing-Sing. Been a while. These hosers are finally letting me use the Internet in the East wing library. They took me out of max last month but kept me in lockdown with no yard time for another 3 weeks while they were...

I appreciate your effort, zz! Still a bit too pricey for an econobuild model. Maybe even overkill for me anyway, though. CStradling, I've read a recent thread here where members say the M1710 suffers from severe overheating...

Takes me back to the Doc. Caliban days...

I've been putting together cheap, old Gateway Solo 9550 notebooks for a few years now. They use the Coppermine 1066, which is just good enough for Win2KPro, and really light work. I got a great deal on my Inspiron 9200 from Dell only...

Well that's good. -Kinda blows my plan for making my first million designing one, though. Oh well, back to my can-opener/widget project.

Yikes! I'd buy 3 Seagate 380GB and take the wife out to dinner with 400 bucks!

It's long been a peeve of mine, and I almost have to chalk it up to that giant corporate conspiracy of "planned obsolescence" (kidding...); But why in the hell don't they just make the screens removable for easy access? It's...